CVE-2020-8285

Publication date 9 December 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 20.10 groovy
Fixed 7.68.0-1ubuntu4.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.12
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.18
14.04 LTS trusty

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
curl

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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